Which professions have the highest fatality rates?

Fishers top the list, followed by loggers and pilots. Surprisingly, garbage men are more likely to die on the job than either firefighters or police&#8212;and most (69 percent) of those deaths are due to traffic accidents, according to Bloomberg&#8217;s interactive. Here are the top ten:

Taxi drivers have the highest rates of death due to violence&#8212;police officers and security guards are next. Bloomberg points out that taxi drivers are more likely to die by being murdered than an accident, which is truly shocking&#8212;think about that the next time you&#8217;re tempted to leave a crappy tip.

Originally Posted by V-TypeSoldiers.
Sadly, true. And most of us look the other way...

I don't think that is correct in normal times discounting things like WW2 and Viet Nam. Over 2,000,000 soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afganistan with about 6500 deaths. Conversely, about 13,000 taxies in NYC and 24 deaths per year average.

From my research 85->90% are in support not trigger pullers. I work at an Army base.

I have a neighbor that was in Iraq. His thumb got wounded playing basketball there. He will get $240 per month for the rest of his life. That is a serious disability because he was a clerk/typist. It's tough to press the space bar on a computer keyboard with a messed up thumb- as he says...